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We're both anti-death threat, right?

On why she thinks this is happening in the gaming community

In some ways there are some men who have gravitated toward gaming culture because they have been rejected by this larger, alpha male culture. The problem with that is that gaming allows them to fulfill that role — the alpha male role — the macho testosterone posturing you get in a lot of these big, AAA [big-budget] games. So they're actually kind of re-perpetuating that alpha male culture by attacking people that they perceive to be weaker than them. So they're going after women, they're going after ***** folks, they're going after trans folks, and especially anyone who speaks up and is critical in any way about gaming.

I'd prefer not to have the guy who has no problem torturing animals.

Seems like a long-winded way of saying this.

Where do we rank death threats made by pissy developers against owners of digital distribution companies?

These people have nothing in common except their prior irrelevance, obscurity, and a dogged hatred of anything resembling progressive values. But to even call the clown kings of Gamergate "conservatives" is to give them more credit than they're due; this isn't political, it's personal and deeply cynical.

Atop a blob of angry, naive, and alienated youths is this handful of self-promoters who recognize an opportunity to self-promote. The kids of Gamergate think they've found heroes and allies, a group of adults who will finally include and respect them. But they're being made fools of all over again.

That guy isn't the leader of a "movement" that's trying to distance itself from its misogynistic origins.

He's a Kotaku writer with a twitter account.

I wouldn't want either as the figurehead of any movement I was supporting.

If you think Gjoni is a figurehead, you're sadly mistaken.

An off the rails Kotaku writer is emblematic of everything we're arguing against: Ethically dubious games journalists.

Getting advertisers to pull out from ethically dubious publications and doing what we can not to read them. At this point, I'm not sure what else we can do as consumers, really.

Whoah, hey, back this up a minute. I was all for the no death threats stuff before I knew you could be turning a profit off this.

Getting advertisers to pull out from ethically dubious publications and doing what we can not to read them. At this point, I'm not sure what else we can do as consumers, really.